Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Wed Jun 19th Todays News

Happy birthday and many happy returns Vicki Smith and Phoebe Dela Cruz. Born on the same day, across the years. On your day in 1269, Louis IX of France imposed a fine of ten livres of silver on Jews found in public without a yellow badge. In 1816, The Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, rival fur-trading companies, engaged in a violent confrontation in present-day Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. In 1953, Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed as spies who passed U.S. nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviet Union. You see injustice, and the fur flies and none can escape .. nor should they. It is your day.
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Tim Blair – Wednesday,June 19,2013 (3:29pm)

Confidential political polling conducted for the ACTU has confirmed Labor is facing huge swings in a raft of ALP seats, results described by leading union officials as “diabolical” and “disastrous” for Julia Gillard …

The ACTU-commissioned polling conducted in recent weeks predicts sitting Labor MPs in Wakefield in South Australia, Petrie in Queensland and Chifley in NSW would lose their seats on the back of double-digit swings against them.

Tim Blair – Wednesday,June 19,2013 (6:38am)

As I stated when I wrote to Ms Eckerman at the time, I reject any suggestion that I acted inappropriately.

That, also, was the view of my friend who was with me in the café during our breakfast meeting.

The respected journalist and columnist, Christopher Pearson, who died tragically this month, was with me at the cafe. I spoke to him after Ms Eckerman made her complaint and he endorsed fully my version of events.

I would be concerned if this false accusation has only re-surfaced after Christopher’s death when he cannot again endorse my account.

This is nothing more than a baseless smear.

Tony Abbott is accused of touching someone inappropriately. To comprehend the full extent of his wickedness, please continue:

Tim Blair – Wednesday,June 19,2013 (4:13am)

They booked themselves on to a 32-hour flight leaving from Newcastle airport on September 3.

They even sent their eight- year-old Dalmatian Molly to have vaccinations and get a pet passport.

Arriving in Adelaide, the family found themselves in a two-bedroom apartment, complete with swimming pool, however, their dream life did not last long.

Mrs Goodfellow said: “We knew almost straight away that something wasn’t right, but we just didn’t say anything to each other …”

Despite their disastrous first attempt at settling in Australia, Mrs Goodfellow admits she could be tempted to try moving abroad again in the future. She said: “I would go back to Australia, to Perth or Sydney or Melbourne, but not to Adelaide.”

Early this year a group, Women for Progress, was formed with Ms Bryce as a director, according to a Labor source.
The source described it as a “politically progressive” group without any express political allegiance.
Ms Bryce recently was made its president.

The movement is so representative, so widely supported, that almost 100
women turn up for the big gala launch featuring the Prime Minister.
Unfortunately, Labor banned TV cameramen from filming the event
themselves - and the footage it released curiously gives on the briefest
glimpse of the vast crowd that was assembled:

Today Holden told 2,100 of its workers in Adelaide they must improve
productivity and reduce pay and conditions or Holden will have to follow
Ford and exit Australian manufacturing…
There was also a stern warning for Canberra: unless government funding
is maintained or improved, Holden says it will also have to leave.

Holden chairman and managing director Mike Devereux reinforced the
company’s intention to continue producing cars at its South Australian
manufacturing plant until at least 2022.
‘’We remain committed to working with both the government and the
Coalition on securing the long-term future for Holden in this country,’’
Mr Devereux said.
‘’The fantastic VF Commodore is a key step in that future. We believe
the VF will retain the Commodore’s rightful place as one of the
best-selling cars in the country - it’s that good.’’

How can a company’s business plans alter so dramatically in less than a
month? It’s becoming a little tiresome that taxpayers are being played
for complete mugs over subsidies to the car industry.

Mike Devereux, chairman and managing director of General Motors Holden,
... has fleeced the federal and state governments for cash handouts -
close to $2 billion in the past decade - and threatened politicians with
factory closures unless the steady stream of money, courtesy of the
taxpayer, continues to roll in.
He has made a promise, probably unenforceable, that GMH will continue
its local operations until 2022, for which an extra sum (about $275
million) was handed over by the federal, Victorian and South Australian
governments…
He now wants workers - read unions - to agree to pay cuts to allow the
company to deal with an “extremely challenging and competitive car
market in Australia with unprecedented price competition and
discounting"…
But why was the company happy to sign off on the Holden Enterprise
Agreement 2011? It was perfectly obvious that GMH was in for a rough
trot, but the agreement provides for 3 + 3 + 3 per cent annual pay rises
as well as a cash payment of $3750.
And the agreement is loaded to the gills with all sorts of restrictions
on management’s ability to actually run the operations efficiently.

Before yesterday, anybody contemplating buying the new Commodore would
have been confident the product was here to stay, at least through 2022
- the current end-date of Holden’s deal with the federal, Victorian and
South Australian governments.
With all that meant to confidence about parts and servicing to re-sale
value. And crucially, to confidence in the build quality of the car.
All that potentially got shredded in an instant yesterday. Talk about undermining your own marketing.
There’s only one thing worse than buying the proverbial ‘Monday car’.
And that’s buying the car made on the last ‘Monday’, figuratively
speaking. The last ones made before the plant is shuttered.

1 - Detroit was once the fourth-largest city in the United States, and
in 1960 Detroit had the highest per-capita income in the entire nation.
2 - Over the past 60 years, the population of Detroit has fallen by 63 percent.
3 - At this point, approximately 40 percent of all the streetlights in the city don’t work.
4 - Some ambulances in the city of Detroit have been used for so long that they have more than 250,000 miles on them.
5 - 210 of the 317 public parks in the city of Detroit have been permanently closed down.
6 - According to the New York Times, there are now approximately 70,000 abandoned buildings in Detroit.
7 - Approximately one-third of Detroit’s 140 square miles is either vacant or derelict.
8 - Less than half of the residents of Detroit over the age of 16 are working at this point.
9 - If you can believe it, 60 percent of all children in the city of Detroit are living in poverty.
10 - According to one very shocking report, 47 percent of the residents of Detroit are functionally illiterate.
11 - Today, police solve less than 10 percent of the crimes that are committed in Detroit.
12 - Ten years ago, there were approximately 5,000 police officers in
the city of Detroit. Today, there are only about 2,500 and another 100
are scheduled to be eliminated from the force soon.
13 - Due to budget cutbacks, most police stations in Detroit are now closed to the public for 16 hours a day.
14 - The murder rate in Detroit is 11 times higher than it is in New York City.
15 - Crime has gotten so bad in Detroit that even the police are telling people to “enter Detroit at your own risk”.
16 - Right now, the city of Detroit is facing $20 billion in debt and
unfunded liabilities. That breaks down to more than $25,000 per
resident.

Links at the link.
A metaphor? Or maybe just a lesson and a warning - as Mark Steyn suggests.
Steyn says compare Hiroshima with Detroit and “you’d think Japan had won World War 2”. It’s now like the Third World, he says:

Hang around for the report after Steyn’s comments. Astonishing.
(Thanks to reader Peredur.)

The consequence of this should be alarming to everyone who takes an
interest in the climate and other scientific debates, no matter what
their view on climate change. Lewandowsky demonstrates that the academic
institutions do not produce dialogue that has any more merit than the
petty exchanges — flame wars –that the internet is famous for. Dressing
political arguments up in scientific terminology risks the value of
science being lost to society — its potential squandered for an edge in a
political fight. After all, if Lewandowsky’s work is representative of
the quality of scientific research in general and the standards the
academy expects of academics, what does that say about climate science
and the quality of the scientific consensus on climate change? If the
scientific argument about the link between anthropogenic CO2 and climate
change is only as good as Lewandowsky’s claim that ‘Rejection of
climate science [is] strongly associated with endorsement of a
laissez-faire view of unregulated free markets’, then perhaps climate
sceptics should be taken more seriously.

Just over a week ago, a 15-year-old boy
called Mohammed Qataa was selling coffee from his stall in Aleppo. A
friend of his asked for a cup, and said that he would pay him back
later…
Young Mohammed said that he didn’t take credit, and wanted payment for
the coffee there and then. Indeed, he went on casually to say that even
if the Prophet Mohammed had come down, he would not give him credit.
Alas, his jocular remark was overheard. Three members of a movement
called the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria decided that they took
exception. So they kidnapped the kid, and took him off to beat him; and
then, in the early hours of Sunday morning, they brought him back — with
whiplash marks on his body — and dumped him, still alive, by his coffee
stand. A crowd gathered around, and a member of the brigade made a
little speech of explanation.
“Generous citizens of Aleppo, disbelieving in God is polytheism and
cursing the prophet is polytheism. Whoever curses even once will be
punished like this!”
And in full view of the crowd, which by now included the boy’s parents —
pleading hysterically — this man fired two bullets from an automatic
weapon into Mohammed Qataa’s head, killing him instantly....
Odious, twisted, hate-filled thugs; arrogant and inadequate creeps,
intoxicated by the pathetic illusion of power that comes with guns;
poisoned by a perversion of religion into a contempt for all norms of
civilised behaviour.
They are fighting not for freedom but for a terrifying Islamic state in
which they would have the whip hand — and yet there is no dodging or
fudging the matter: these are among the Syrian rebels who are hoping now
to benefit from the flow of Western arms.
How is it supposed to work? How are we meant to furnish machine guns and
anti-tank weapons to one set of opposition forces, without them ending
up in the hands of men like the al-Qaeda-affiliated thugs who executed a
child for telling a joke?

Iran has sent its proxy army of Hezbollah into the war in support of the
Assad regime… With Hezbollah’s help, Assad’s army retook the
strategically important town of Qusair two weeks ago…
But Iran is going further. According to a report in Britain’s
Independent on Sunday newspaper, Iran has decided to send about 4000 of
its own troops into Syria in support of the regime…
On the rebels’ side are the three other rising powers of the region - Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Israel.
What unites these very disparate nations? They don’t like the Assad
regime, but, more importantly, they fear its great sponsor, Iran…
[The conflict] is pitting Sunni Muslim against Shiite Muslim… Assad’s
main ally, Iran, has Shia as its state religion. So the Shiite states
are on one side.
And the rebels in Syria? Chiefly Sunnis. The Islamic-majority countries
lined up in support of the rebels - such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar - are
all Sunni-dominated.

With 93,000 of Syria’s citizens dead, a kill
rate in the country higher than in post-invasion Iraq, and one of the
world’s most murderous and tyrannical regimes poised to win a historic
victory thanks to western inaction, Johnson can only fret about
hypothetical dangers.
In fact, it is the west’s failure militarily to support the Syrian
National Coalition and its principal military counterpart, the Free
Syrian Army (FSA), that is strengthening the hand of al-Qaida in Syria.
The SNC is formally committed to the establishment of a “democratic and
pluralistic civil state” and is recognised by Britain, the US, the EU
and the Arab League as legitimately representing the Syrian people. Yet
demoralised by their shortage of arms, soldiers of the FSA have been
defecting to the al-Qaida-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra militia, which is,
according to some sources, the best-equipped rebel force in Syria. The
double-headed monster traditionally oppressing the Arab world – brutal
dictatorships in power and opposition channelled into Islamist extremism
and terrorism; the very combination that spawned al-Qaida and the 9/11
attacks in the first place – looks set to be resuscitated in Syria, as
Johnson and other conservatives do their best to undermine western
support for the only viable alternative.

One of Julia Gillard’s brain-waves was to sack Senator Trish Crossin for not being Aboriginal, replacing her with Nova Peris. Last night there was blow-back:

Senator [Doug] Cameron said he remained appalled at the ‘’abominable’’
treatment meted out to Senator Crossin and hoped it would never be
repeated.

‘’You should have been treated with fairness and dignity and you were
not, and that’s a shame for the Labor Party to have been involved in
that,’’ he said.
Fellow Labor senator Kim Carr said there was never any case for disendorsing her.
‘’… I still maintain that Trish, you were treated unjustly,’’ he said.
Senator Crossin took a parting shot at Ms Gillard in her valedictory
speech, saying: ‘’Do we need more women in Parliament? Well, of course
we do. But not at the expense of each other.’’
‘’And do we need indigenous representation? Most certainly. But not in a vacuum without plan or strategy,’’ she said.
The party veteran, who has been in the Senate for 15 years described the
way she was dumped as ‘’grossly unfair, undemocratic and not the Labor
way’’.

If that’s what Labor MPs think of Gillard’s racist decision, I wonder
whether Northern Territory voters will be any more impressed.

John Howard is a bit of media tart here, but, gee, a few seconds of
screen time will make millions yearn for the days when an adult was in
charge.
UPDATE
Speaking of cricket, kind of, I’m loving this new Commonwealth Bank ad. Very moral message:

There’s a one in two chance that by 2100 there’ll be no human beings
left on this planet. The planet will exist, but it’s just that my
granddaughter won’t be part of it. And I think that’s a pretty alarming
statistic, probability, one in two chance if we don’t correct out
behaviours.

Writes Mull:

Andrew, all my life I have been missing out on investment opportunities
because I have been too slow to respond to market demands. But this time
I am getting in at the ground floor.
According to our latest Global Warming guru, it’s a [50-50 chance] that
no humans will be alive on the planet by 2100—just 87 years away. So I
have decided that now is the time for me to start up a funeral business.
There are going to over seven billion funerals in the next 87 years.
I tried doing a cost-benefit analysis, but my desk-top calculator
doesn’t do billions. Anyhow, who needs a cost-benefit analysis
nowadays—that’s so last century. So when you see an old bloke slowly
driving his 15-year-old Hilux ute down your street, ringing an old
school bell, and crying out, “Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!”
that will be me.

QUEENSLAND Premier Campbell Newman has called on
tycoon Clive Palmer to be fully accountable and to stop trying to “fob
off journalists” examining his conduct in his quest to be prime
minister.
Mr Newman revealed he was worried about the future of Mr Palmer’s
businesses, particularly his nickel refinery at Townsville, amid
revelations in The Australian of mounting financial losses and demands
by Mr Palmer for massive cash injections from a major Chinese company.
Mr Palmer ... has linked the leak to The Australian of a legal letter -
in which he warned the Chinese company, CITIC Pacific, three months ago
that he required about $200 million in cash urgently or more than 1000
Australian families would be affected by having their jobs cut - to a
criminal conspiracy, break-in and computer hacking in his Brisbane
office.

Mr Palmer’s lawyers, HopgoodGanim, yesterday issued Queensland Supreme
Court defamation proceedings against the newspaper and two of its
journalists, seeking damages of about $800,000.

Not fit for high office. Not even fit for a humble seat in Parliament:

Mr Palmer sent text messages accusing this reporter of having lived
close to Buckingham Palace and of relying on sources to write about the
royal family.
Asked if he would be interviewed, Mr Palmer replied: “Not interested in
fantasy from a 4th class jurno (sic) that we will be suing.”

My tip? This buffoon will not win a single seat in Parliament. And will turn out not to be as rich as many now think.
Compared with Palmer, Melmotte was a great success and a very model of how a wheeler-dealer should buy his way into Parliament.

Still, one man might be surprised by Rusty’s declaration of support.
Might feel a bit betrayed after all that effort back when he was
somebody:

THE phone rang in Kevin Rudd’s office one day last week. It was Russell Crowe. Well, not Rusty himself, but his people.
“Mr Crowe understands that Kevin will be in Washington over the weekend,” said the Gladiator’s personal attache. “And Mr Crowe would like Kevin to know that Russell will be available on Sunday if he wants to catch up."…
And Rudd’s excruciating response? “Excited beyond words,” one of
Rudd’s staff told me. “He blushed with happiness. Now we have to work
out how to get the cameras into the meeting.”

CONFIDENTIAL political polling conducted for the ACTU has confirmed
Labor is facing huge swings in a raft of ALP seats, results described by
leading union officials as “diabolical” and “disastrous” for Julia
Gillard.
But the ACTU leadership is standing behind the Prime Minister and
opposing any moves to replace her with Kevin Rudd despite the polling.

One reason the unions back Gillard is that Rudd would destroy their control over Labor, maybe forever.
Another reason is more pragmatic:

However, union leaders, who are generally supportive of Ms Gillard
remaining prime minister, said there was only brief discussion at the
meeting about whether Mr Rudd would improve Labor’s prospects.
Some union leaders were unconvinced that switching back to Mr Rudd would
lift Labor’s prospects. “It would be like getting a sugar hit while
standing on the Titanic,” one senior union official said. “You can’t
look at one poll in isolation and not take into account what’s going to
happen the day after he returns. The front pages of the papers will be
all about how the country’s first female prime minister was stabbed in
the back and the role he and his lieutenants played.”

Trade unions select 50 per cent of the delegates to the party’s state
conferences… At the conference, these delegates sit together and vote as
one, as directed by the union secretary…
Conferences decide on policy, elect party officials and determine Senate
and upper house pre-selections. Unions regard spots on the party’s
executive bodies as theirs.... They demand seats in parliament for their
candidates…
More broadly, the influence of unions throughout the party is pervasive.
Most members of the government’s frontbench have worked as a union
representative or as a lawyer for unions.
Unions send their staff to marginal seats to campaign… At the coming
federal election, unions affiliated to Labor are expected to draw on a
war chest of about $5 million…
Julia Gillard’s leadership has been supported by trade union leaders who
do not resile from their right to publicly state who should lead the
party…
Gillard has encouraged, even courted, an expansion of union power. No
leader since Calwell has been more beholden to, or more of an advocate
for, union power.

THE current disreputable Labor deadlock flows from a core contradiction:
Kevin Rudd’s source of authority resides in the people while Julia
Gillard’s authority derives from inside the parliamentary party.

Don't focus on the problem , you give the problem more power, focus on the solution, and have faith, live in hope, never despair.. God will not forsake you..

===The Chicago Jelly Bean…

Another shot from my time traveling across the US on the Project Weather tour with Yahoo! while in Chicago. The day was shot, with blanched white skies, but I knew that night would dial in a scene or two. The trouble with getting a shot at this location was all the people surrounding this spaceship from another planet that decided to park in the heart of this grand city. Night time was the right time also because I could do a nice long exposure which eliminated the 15-20 souls who were wandering around it this particular evening. I like people, but not when they get in the way of a remarkable piece of art that needs to be photographed by yours truly.
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A story of last night's Fairfield Parkour class:

It was a nice evening with around 50 students signed in and the weather was only lightly sprinkling, we then walk to the park and discover it's full of footballers training across two fields. We managed to find a tiny unused space behind the goal posts of one of the fields and begin our mental prep and warmups. It then starts pouring rain, and we watch all the footballers leave as we make our students stay and train through the rain, as if nothing had really changed. Two empty footballs fields were left all to ourselves, we saw opportunity and the Warriors all stepped up to the plate. It was just another night of what we do every single week.

The point is this, when life throws unexpected hardships at you, you can either give up or you can rise up to the challenge. When we said we'll grind through rain, hail and shine, we weren't joking. Everyone who came last night earnt their right to be called a Warrior, you guys and girls absolutely KILLED IT and we hope you all continue to rise above. Through all the pain and the struggle we endure, we'll always remain by your sides helping you defy the odds and shatter the limits. That's what we do.STAY STRONG, 9LIVES 1LOVE

An angel.I believe I met one of Gods angels today. Last night I stayed up crying in bed asking God why my life turned out the way it is. I woke up the next morning and started my long day at 5.45am. Work started at 8 and finished at 1.There has been a lot happening at home, so I decided to go to uni and study. I have been feeling sad and discouraged for the last couple of months. I had felt like everything around me was falling apart. I often questioned God and asked him why I was going through so much struggle and pain and when my life was going to change. I really forgot who God was, I forgot he had a plan and purpose for everything and that he would never let me down. I finished of my study at 8.45pm. It began to rain. It was cold and dark. I quickly ran to my car, turned the radio on and began to drive home. I usually take the M4 home as it is the quickest. Drove past the Westmead exit and I saw a 3 car pile up. I said a quick prayer driving past and hoped noone was hurt. I continued driving down the M4 until I slammed on my breaks because the driver infront of me had gone into 2 other cars. At that moment my car started to slide.I saw a tiny gap on the next lane and knew my car wouldn't fit into it. I continued to slam my breaks. It was all so sudden, I was in that next lane. I believe an angel came and steered my car into the next lane. It definitely wasn't me.Some people may think I'm crazy but I know it was God. I could feel it. I began to cry and cry because I had no explanation to it. In that moment I felt God telling me not to be discouraged and that this was a reminder that he is still here watching over me and that he has a plan for everything and to wait patiently. - AnonymousI don't find these kind of stories encouraging .. it makes me skeptical. I believe in God awake and active. This seems to me to be double mindedness. Good things happen when God is part of your life .. it doesn't mean blind luck. Give thanks to him because he has been there for you, from before birth, and will be there for you long after your body passes. - ed
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When Lt. Wayne is framed for the murder of his fiancé’s brother, Armand Corday (Lon Chaney, Jr.), he vows to capture the real killer, a mysterious Arab terrorist known only as El Shaitan. He is aided by the Three Musketeers: Clancy (an Irishman always spoiling for a fight), Renard, and Schmidt (who loves sausages). Nicknamed the “Devil of the Desert”, El Shaitan leads a desert cult and a secret society against French authorities, with a meeting point called Devil’s Circle. He remains a shadowy figure, hiding his face and his true identity, as a result of which many people are mistakenly suspected of being El Shaitan, while other characters impersonate him for their own ends.
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===Incredible oil painting "Brewing Tea" by ~MingYouXu http://bit.ly/100Eex8
===Day 3 of exams! Good luck to those sitting today. Here's some very serious looking students at an exam in MacLaurin Hall in 1964. Maybe someone can spot their parents...

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===Friends walk in when everyone else walks out. These pastors flew out to California just to hang out with me for 2 days and lift my spirit. This picnic is in my back yard. @BrianCHouston @JoeChampion @GregSurratt @Rick_Bezet @DinoRizzo, not pictured @Chris_Hodges
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===Complete Classic Movie: Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)

A dramatization of the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima. Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 war film starring John Wayne that follows a group of United States Marines from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. The movie also features John Agar, Adele Mara, and Forrest Tucker, was written by Harry Brown and James Edward Grant, and directed by Allan Dwan. The picture was a Republic Pictures production. Sands of Iwo Jima was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (John Wayne), Best Film Editing, Best Sound, Recording (Daniel J. Bloomberg) and Best Writing, Motion Picture Story.
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Chris Bowenjust updated his cover photo to one with Kevin Rudd. In Facebook language, this is basically a declaration of war. I believe this is a sign that there is going to be a leadership challenge by Kevin Rudd in the coming days. Let this be the final leadership battle before the election of a strong, cohesive and disciplined Abbott led, Liberal Government.#auspol

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===Enchanted River is found in Barangay Talisay, Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur. It is called "enchanted" because no one has ever reached its bottom.
===FOR WHOM THE POLL TOLLS

This site has consistently claimed that Kevin Rudd can never lead Labor again. Polls that show a Rudd return might give Labor a fighting chance are misleading and indicate only the extremity of the public’s distaste for Gillard.

I have a ripper little dog called Blinky who would poll well when compared to Gillard. Even Ivan Milat would poll well if voters were forced to achoice. That’s the extent of Gillard’s unpopularity and it holds no Brownie points for Rudd

Media have been beating up Rudd’s prospects for years, he makes great copy, but if Labor is to field more than a lacrosse team after this election it needs to ignore the Milky Bar Kid.

Let’s face it, Kevin (I have to zip folks) Rudd is a political simpleton who was used as a footstool for Gillard’s elevation.

When the AWU could stand him no longer, it ruthlessly killed him off. Seriously, would it now agree to his reinstatement?

When union thugs and crooks like Howes and Ludwig decide who leads this nation what more can we expect than an ideologically driven gangsters’ moll like Gillard.

Ludwig’s heir in waiting, Bill Shorten, will certainly lead what’s left of this once-great Party after the election.

He could replace Gillard now, he has broad factional support, but he has a few problems.

First problem is he can’t keep his dick in his trousers.

Second, he is embroiled in the coming explosive expose on the AWU/Gillard/Slater & Gordon fraud case under investigation by the Victorian Fraud Squad.

Third, he doesn’t want to be the one to lead the Labor Party to an embarrassing defeat.

But in Opposition he will need numbers he can build on and that will not be possible if Gillard stays. What a dilemma for little Bill.

Leaked ACTU polling shows a Labor massacre. Why was it leaked? Because ACTU luminaries were ruefully coveting safe Labor seats that will no longer exist if Gillard stays.

The ACTU wants Gillard gone too, but it wants anyone but Rudd.

With illegal immigration looming as the major election issue, the cerumen-ingesting, overfed public servant with female hands would have less electoral credibility than does Gillard.

Gillard and McTernan are deperate to drag Abbott into the cesspit of their gender division with yet another spurious charge; this time, touching an aboriginal woman on the arm and linking the dastardly deed to domestic violence.

The aboriginal woman, and Labor sympathiser, said she needed counselling and felt like wearing a burka to escape his lascivious clutches. WTF?

Perhaps future Opposition leader Shorten might care to answer the charge that he touched a 23yo staffer somewhere else that necessitated an abortion.

But that’s just another rumour eh?... a rumour that ABC Insiders’ panellists won’t have heard of either.

So, who exactly has taken politics to this depth of sewage in a desperate attempt to cling to power? Mmmm.
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An organization Human Rights based in Tel Aviv threat of Australian teachers because of the boycott against Israel
===Mudar ZahranI just wonder why we Palestinians Arabs have chosen to fight Israel, while it brings the very modern values and qualities of life we leave our homes, travel thousands of miles away, to enjoy in the West....
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===The guy who thought Obama should give a stimulus of $100k to every American .. costing approx $30 trillion, backs Gilard. He thought about it. Deeply.
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Right now, let the Holy Spirit help you when you feel weak. Let Him empower you with truth that will set you free. Stay in faith and don’t get negative toward yourself or your future. Let God take what you think is a liability and turn it into an asset. Let Him take what you think is a disadvantage and turn it around to be an advantage. Remember that you are more than a conqueror today and every day because He is strong in you.

PRAY ALONG.Father in heaven, today I give You all that I am. I invite You into the weak places in my life so that You can turn them into strengths. Thank You for working in my life and filling me with faith and expectancy. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

As A Child Of God,Holy Spirit is Strong in You.
Sometimes, people get distracted by what they consider to be a disadvantage or weakness in their lives. It may be something about their personality or looks that they don’t like. Or maybe they’ve been through an unfair situation: a divorce, a bad business deal or a bad break. We all have things that can feel like disadvantages; things that make it harder on us. It may even be a physical handicap, and you can’t get around like you used to.But just because you have a “disadvantage,” just because you’ve been through a tough time doesn’t mean you’re supposed to sit back and settle where you are. God still has something great for you to do! He wants to show Himself strong in and through you, and He’s given you His Holy Spirit to equip you in this life.Romans 8:26 (NIV) says "In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans". God bless you

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Everyone, including Barack Obama's staff, is monitoring the progress of Patriot Voices' Stand Up for the Grassroots money bomb.

This fundraising campaign has taken on a life of its own. How successful we are in reaching our $100,000 goal is now considered an indication of how badly the American people want real change in Washington.

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I'm author of History in a Year by the Conservative Voice aka History of the World in a Year by the Conservative Voice.

I'm the Conservative Voice.

I'm looking to make contact with those who might use my skill.

I have an m-audio mobile pre amp fed by the audiotechnica 2041sp condensor mic pack. Prior to 15/4/06, I'd used a Shure sm-58 that required a nuclear blast to register a sound or the internal mic of my aged imac, which has a penchance to recording my breathing. I also used a Griffin itrip, until the community convinced me it was not hiding my talent as well as the other mics.

I am a Writer and an occasional Math Teacher (Sir, what's the occasion?). I like to sing, having no instrumental talent (cannot even clap in time, and yes, I'm aware singing badly IS obnoxious).

I have performed the finale to Les Miserables before an audience of 500. I have also sung before a similar audience (students, parents) renditions of 'I Will' (Beatles), 'Mr Cairo' (Jon Vangelis) and 'I am Australian' (Seekers). Now I seek another profession because the audience hates me ..